ABSTRACT

This chapter starts with the religious sensibility of the Psalms and seeking to understand how religious belief can have a positive epistemic status using the terms of that sensibility. It presents religious sensibilities as a grounding for religious belief and a way of understanding its status as a proper belief. The chapter looks at the particular kind of religious experience as a possible way of discovering God. The kind of religious experience considered may be commonplace in various religious traditions, but in the traditions of Judaism and Christianity it is evident in the inspiration of many of the Psalms. The tradition of religious sensibility that the Psalms embodies does not begin or end with the Psalms. It is a sensibility that can be found in the lives of ordinary religious believers.